Amy Jean's Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites receives multiple five-star reviews.

Sherri Rosen, a NYC book publicist, says, "I just read this book, and it blew me away. Perfect time for a book like this telling it like it is. Provocative, pushing the envelope, honest. Just what we need right now! Buy it! You will be so glad you did!"

K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite, says, "Author Amy Jean has created a true rollercoaster of poetic works and musings, one which delivers on both its structural front as a collection and the emotional front as an experience to work through. A particular highlight of the work for me was 'Faberge Egg,' which exuded such a powerful aura of artifice versus reality, and intelligently played this theme over our real lives, and 'Say It Isn't So,' which explores the importance of female empowerment, ideas of childhood naivety and the freedom that comes to us all from 'the game of life': chillingly brilliant."

Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites poetically reveals the diabolical ramifications of life being played rather than lived. Amy Jean shares personal trials, tribulations, and contemplation in a spirited, rhythmic chime. The struggle of women to be recognized in a male-dominated society is boldly depicted in activist poetry style. This collection shoots flares up at the historical missteps we habitually ignore. Fiery intensity and engaging illustrations amplify the words on the page and drive them home to readers who are open to engaging with our flawed history.

In Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites Part 2: Some things are black and white, Amy Jean continues to share the ramifications of repetitive historical missteps in an intense poetic clang. The poems hint at unknown universal truths, including direct indications that we currently do not have the freedom we assume we possess, nor are we privy to view reality. Implied impending euphoria holds the reader hostage, as she or he flips from page to page. You can feel the author's anguish surrounding the greed and jealousy holding humanity back from breaking through to universal liberation: A rapidly approaching future where the oneness depicted in Holy Scripture is a present and universal truth for all. Sincere tantalizing morsels of a gentle and enduring devotion seep sporadically between poems broadcasting profound rage regarding paths endured. You can feel the author's confidence build as she evaluates her worth against the negative feedback and denial she has experienced throughout her tumultuous, synthetic, and isolated existence; An existence she is painstakingly laboring to reconstruct, piece by piece, through intense contemplation. The juxtaposed nature of the work takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and lows, culminating in a final AMEN. Illustrator, Eric Savage, delivers once again with heartwarming illustrations that poignantly captivate the essence of the words on the page. Side Steps Terrorizing Sound bites offer's poetic snippets of Amy Jean's memoir, The Kingdom Has Arrived.

The blog will publish extra info and teaser chapters from Mike Nilles’ autobiographical novel, slated for release in September/October 2020.

Atlanta, GA - USA | June 22nd, 2020 -- MikeNilles.com is a newly launched book blog dedicated in preparation of writer Mike Nilles’ first autobiographical novel, set in Luxembourg in the 1970s. The novel tackles a personal story of abuse, tragedy, and mystery, mixing truth and fiction. It takes place in the towns of Steinfort and Rodange, in the heart of Luxembourg’s declining steel industry, where two working class families intertwine and clash. What follows is a gut-wrenching story of mistreatment and fractured relationships.

What started as a personal project has evolved into a tale that needs to be told, as per the author’s words. “When I began writing, (this book) started as nothing more than a form of self-therapy. Too much had happened that I could never bring over my lips,” Mike Nilles explains on his new blog. “But I can’t ignore that it happened. It started in the tiny town of Rodange, and what happened there followed me throughout my childhood, to Jean Asselborn’s municipality of Steinfort.”

In the lead up to the book’s release, Nilles plans to publish some of the book’s first chapters and release additional information to help readers learn more about the setting and put the puzzle pieces together. As an autobiographical novel, Mike Nilles’ new book will mix elements of truth and fiction, so it’s left to the reader to determine what really happened. Readers can also get in touch with Mike and share his story via the hashtag #mikenillesstory.

The book is set to be available for purchase in September/October 2020, with chapters and auxiliary information to be released in the lead up to the publication date.

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MikeNilles.com is a book blog created in anticipation of Mike Nilles’ first autobiographical novel, set in the towns of Rodange and Steinfort in Luxembourg, in the early 1970s. The book will recount a tale of hardship and abuse, encouraging readers to piece together the truth. Inspired by global movements like #MeToo, Mike Nilles decided that it was time to face his past.

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ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Tara Cummins Mother's Ingredients hitting stores everywhere on April 13th, 2020.

Mother’s Ingredients is an innovative memoir written with main chapters that follow Tara’s early years growing up with an addict mother, interspersed with vignettes that track her progress through her first pregnancy. Contrast as a four-year-old left in the hands of a pedophile babysitter and dark drug houses while her mother is away feeding her addiction, with the first kicks of her twin daughters and the joy and absolute dread that all too often overwhelms her. Dive back into Tara’s young life as she takes beer cans away from her toddler brother and witness the rare happy family moments filled with a mother who is shortly sober. Learn about car seats and baby names while the feelings of unease, both physically and emotionally, build up around her pregnancy. By clashing vivid scenes from her childhood to that of the pregnancy Tara gives readers a sense of tension and emotional depth in every section.

Tara Cummins was born and raised in the mountains of Southern California. She received her MFA from the California State University of San Bernardino and has taught at Victor Valley College. She now lives with her husband and four children in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mother’s Ingredients is her first book.

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ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by M. Conway Dorsey Lower Reaches of the River hitting stores everywhere on April 14th, 2020.

Dorsey spins a tale of exploration out of a vision of reality in which emptiness stands at the center. Like the story’s characters, the reader is called upon to undertake a re-creation of self and to acknowledge natural magic found in our daily experience.

The language of birds, scarecrows come to life, and encrypted maps on the roadside are among the imaginative visions that Adley Reynaud fabricates and filters through the warped lens of his inventive mind.

He is high functioning, yet mentally afflicted young man, with a narrow band of extraordinary savant-like perceptive abilities. Adley renders the southern tidal marshland through the prism of his mind into an array of colorful visions embroidered with his refracted enhancements.

M. Conway Dorsey is originally from South Louisiana, a place of lowlands, sugarcane, big lakes, oil fields, and voodoo. He holds a degree in Arts and Sciences from Louisiana State University where he also attended Law School. Over the years, inspired by the transformative power of literature, he has published several short works of fiction in literary journals. His long abiding passion for poetry and fiction resulted in the novel Lower Reaches of the River.

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